bring about

British  

verb

1. to cause to happen

   to bring about a change in the law

2. to turn (a ship) around

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bring about Idioms  

1. Also, bring to pass. Make something happen, accomplish or result in something. For example, The revised tax code brought about considerable changes in accounting. The first term dates from the 1400s, and the variant, today considered rather formal, from the first half of the 1500s. Also see bring on, def. 1.

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bring about

Alton Byers, a mountain geographer at the University of Colorado who was not involved in the study, says it should serve as a "springboard" to bring about more effective early-warning systems and other precautionary measures.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

But that -- or any type of military action -- is unlikely to bring about a resolution to the conflict.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

By which he means “a social movement that seeks not to bring about one kind of society or another but, instead, no society at all.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

While everyone argues about whether AI will eventually bring about the apocalypse, hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building the infrastructure underneath it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Total diffusion of rapid communication devices, which is supposed to bring about nationalism almost inevitably, had not done so.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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